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Sitting on an alligator
I was in town today and bumped into a woman I used to work with.
She'd just come back from holiday and was full of it all.
One of the highlights was apparantly the fact that she'd sat on an alligator.
Her friend asked, "Did it try to bite you?"
"No," she said. "They tape the jaws together so that they can't bite."
If anyone reading this thinks they would do likewise when on holiday, just let me know and I'll quietly defriend you now.
I find it difficult to express how offensive I find the idea of taking pleasure in something that is so obviously distressing for the animal in question.
(I'm not opposed to all forms of animal exploitation - I'll even give you an argument in favour of moderate levels of hunting - but this is entertainment with no possible benefit to wildlife of any kind.)
She'd just come back from holiday and was full of it all.
One of the highlights was apparantly the fact that she'd sat on an alligator.
Her friend asked, "Did it try to bite you?"
"No," she said. "They tape the jaws together so that they can't bite."
If anyone reading this thinks they would do likewise when on holiday, just let me know and I'll quietly defriend you now.
I find it difficult to express how offensive I find the idea of taking pleasure in something that is so obviously distressing for the animal in question.
(I'm not opposed to all forms of animal exploitation - I'll even give you an argument in favour of moderate levels of hunting - but this is entertainment with no possible benefit to wildlife of any kind.)